Ep. 1094 - The Democrat Fantasy World Is A Nightmare
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In this episode of The Michael Knowles Show, host Michael Kogan talks with Gov. Chris Murphy about the possibility of a recession in New Jersey and why he thinks there's a 50/50 chance of it happening. He also talks about why the Democratic Party is out of options other than to lie to the American people.
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I've got bad news, and I've got worse news. The bad news is that the Democrat governor of New
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Jersey believes there is a 50-50 chance of recession. Do we need this budget surplus right
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now to survive some difficult days ahead? Yeah, I think we do, is the short answer. And you're
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right. The budget I signed a couple of months ago had a surplus of $6.8 billion. I think the budget
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the year before we got here was $440 million. And by the way, on top of the $6.8 billion,
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we've got another over $5 billion in either a debt avoidance or a debt defeasance fund.
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And I thought the prior conversation that Joe had on the prospects of a recession at about 50-50,
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that seems right to me. So we don't want to get caught out. New Jersey's been caught out before,
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and we are determined not to get caught out again. Our job is to make sure we deliver affordability,
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that we've got enough in the bank for a rainy day, and that we outperform other like states.
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And those are our obsessions right now. Murphy thinks there's a 50-50 chance of recession.
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That's the bad news. The worst news is that there's actually a 100% chance of recession
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because we have officially been in a recession since July 28th. Because a recession is defined
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as two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth. And we're there, and we've been there for a while.
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That's the bad news and the worst news, both of which add up together to the worst news of all.
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The Democrats are now out of options. They have no other way to make themselves at all palatable
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to the American people other than to lie. And you can expect those lies to become more extreme by the
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day as we approach the midterm elections. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.
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your one month free. The lies are becoming more egregious. Yes, politicians lie. Yes,
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the Democrats lie in particular. But the lies are becoming more egregious because if the Democrats had
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anything whatsoever to hang their hats on for the midterm elections, they would be focusing on that.
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But they don't have it. They don't have it on the economy. They don't have it on foreign policy.
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They don't have it on immigration. They don't even have it on public health, which was the most
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favorable issue for them previously. So now they are just lying about everything. You want to see
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an example of how they lie. This clip is going viral. And I think actually most conservatives
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who are reacting to it are missing the point of the clip. It's Stacey Abrams denying that when a fetus,
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quote unquote, when a little baby in the womb gets a heartbeat, that that is actually a heartbeat.
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There is no such thing as a heartbeat at six weeks. It is a manufactured sound designed to
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convince people that men have the right to take control of a woman's body away from them.
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When you go into the doctor's office and you hear that little baby's heartbeat,
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that's not really a heartbeat. That's manufactured. That's what Stacey Abrams is saying.
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And the conservatives who are watching this are saying, lady, you're completely nuts. You're
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totally making that up. That's ridiculous. Actually, though, it's more insidious than that,
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because the way Stacey Abrams is lying here is the way that Democrats lie most effectively,
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which is that there is a little tiny kernel of an almost little grain of truth there
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around which Stacey Abrams can build a much more powerful lie. And the little tiny, little bitty
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itty grain of truth is this. When you go into the doctor's office and you hear that fetal heartbeat
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at six weeks, the sound you are hearing is in fact sort of manufactured. The heartbeat is not
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manufactured, but the sound that you are hearing sort of is because at that time, the heartbeat that
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your baby has is not actually audible. The heartbeat that your baby has is observed by observing electrical
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pulses from the heart. But she's got a point. The heart that your baby has at that time is not
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exactly the same as the heart that you have right now or the heart that you will have in 50 years or
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the heart that you had when you were five years old. It's true. Your heart is developing.
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And your heart, your whole body is developing from the moment of conception. And your heart is
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developing from those very, very early weeks onward throughout pregnancy and then throughout the rest
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of your life. So what is happening is the sonogram technology is interpreting the electrical pulses
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in the early stages of that heart development and making it sound like a heartbeat. But where Stacey Abrams
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is wrong is that's not being made up out of whole cloth. That's not being just totally fabricated. The machine
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is just interpreting those electrical pulses, which are the basis of the heartbeat. Those little electrical pulses
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that the machine is interpreting as do-do, do-do. That is what your heartbeat is and will be for the rest of your life.
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A way to think of it is when sweet little baby June comes up to me, my little 20-month-old kid,
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and he comes up to me and he wants to watch TV. Sometimes we'll let him watch a little bit of TV.
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He really likes this one random YouTube channel, which is just a series of clocks. It's called
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Clock TV. I don't know. The kid is just obsessed with clocks. And so he'll come up to me and he'll say,
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Daddy, da-da, I would like to watch Clock TV now. I want to watch that young man's clock collection.
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So could you please go to the Apple TV and then turn on YouTube and then search for Clock TV
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and then click on that particular video and then we can watch that together, da-da, please?
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No, wait a second. That's not what he says. What he actually says is,
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T, right? That when my little kid wants to watch that specific thing, because that's really all he
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ever wants to watch, he just comes up and he goes, T? He doesn't even say TV. He can't quite say that yet.
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So he says, T, and then I interpret that to mean, Daddy, I want to watch TV and on YouTube and I want
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to watch specifically this channel on YouTube and specifically this video. And my interpretation
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of that is correct, but he is not saying all of that yet because he's a little itty-bitty baby.
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The signal that's coming out requires some interpretation, but that interpretation is
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correct in what that thing is signifying. It's the same thing with your baby's little heartbeat.
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But Stacey Abrams doesn't want to admit that. She doesn't want to admit that babies have little
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heartbeats because she wants to justify killing them to the tune of 850,000 per year. You're seeing
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this kind of lying with the way that the libs are talking, obviously, about transgenderism. Did you see,
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oh my gosh, did you see, the Forbes Women's Summit? You could not make this up. The Babylon Bee could
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not do a satirical article about this. Forbes held a Women's Summit. And the Women's Summit invited
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women's rights advocates and online influencers and all sorts of, you know, all sorts of big women.
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And one of the women that the Forbes Women's Summit invited is a guy named Dylan Mulvaney,
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who is a guy who thinks that he's a woman. And he's come to some prominence on TikTok for his
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Days of Girlhood series. This is the guy that they invited to personify, to exemplify the very best
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of women. Day 66, being a girl, and today I'm in nature. Trees? I love them. Water? Lakes? I love
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them. Heels? They're my hiking heels. I love them. Okay, come on. Bridges? Love them. Coconut water? Love it.
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Not an ad. Just love it. Wind turbine. Love it. Meadows. Love them.
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This man, prancing around in booty shorts with a little bra on, playing up this extremely foppish
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face, sort of fear of a little bug, and flitting about, and throwing himself on the ground.
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That's what men with a bizarre sexual fetish are like.
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There's another, he's explaining what it's like to be him.
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He's explaining the absolute horror that some people would believe that he's actually a man.
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Day 62 of being a girl, and I have been misgendered so many times this week, and most commonly,
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it's a follower running up to me on the street and being like, you're the boy from TikTok.
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And they always feel so bad after I correct them, and that's so not my intention.
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But I wear all this makeup and sometimes fake boobs and the hair, and it still doesn't register
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And I was just wondering if there's anything I can do on my end for you all to see me more
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Could you believe that some people would think that guy is a man?
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That guy, he says, look, I dress up like a Betty Boop caricature of what some man might
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think a woman at her most absolutely absurd caricature could be.
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And I know it's not my job to show people that I'm really a woman.
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And the things he's doing are extremely absurd and disordered and ridiculous.
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And we wouldn't tolerate it from any other person.
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It reminds me of Family Guy, that voice crying out in the wilderness, Family Guy, which explains
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I'm allowed to do absolutely anything whatsoever because I'm saying I'm transgender.
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This guy who shows up to the Forbes Women's Summit dressed up like some ridiculous caricature
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of a woman and flitting about and mocking women and making a whole mockery of the concept
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The way that conservatives are dealing with this now is we're saying you're not really
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You have a strong jawline, sir, and you don't have the body parts of a woman and you're
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I'm going to dress up like a lady because I say I'm a lady and you can't stop me.
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And this is where we get to what the real conservative response has to be.
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Who's going to stop me from dressing up like a woman and behaving this way?
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I think that you, sir, and all men out there, have an obligation not to behave that way.
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You have an obligation not to go outside in little booty shorts and a bra and a big silly
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I am willing to wield the force of culture and standards and norms and the state to stop
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You're not going to stop it by winning some debate on YouTube or TikTok.
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You're not going to stop it by showing someone some statistics and citing some stupid data
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Okay, you're going to win it by pointing out that whatever bizarre perversions are going
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on in this dude's head, he has a duty and an obligation not to express them, certainly
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And then the only other way you're going to win it is by wielding political power to say,
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When you go out in public like this, you have to be brought to psychological counseling.
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If you continue to behave like this, you're going to be committed to an institution.
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I'm thinking of that shop teacher who showed up to class in Canada with the gigantic triple
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Z prosthetic breasts and the wig on looking like a complete maniac.
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The only way you're going to stop it is if you have the courage to wield political power
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to say, no, you don't get to behave like a crazy person.
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Because I live in society and I don't want my kids to grow up in this kind of degenerate
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And I don't want to live in this kind of bizarro world, absurd society.
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I want to live in a nice, good place with good, true and beautiful things around me and
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people acting as they should and being polite and being normal.
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That we live in a society that is normal because this is becoming normal and I don't want to
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The speech was on our far-right, semi-fascist, radical, extreme founding fathers in the way
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that our country existed until about five minutes ago.
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But the basis of that society is Christianity, if you want to have the good, normal society.
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Christian majority in the U.S. could shrink to minority by 2070.
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This is based on a new survey from Pew Research Center.
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Shows that nearly a third of people raised in the Christian faith currently leave the
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If those rates continue, Pew projects that 46% of Americans would identify as Christian by
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Those with no religious affiliation would stand at about 41%.
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Christianity would no longer be the majority religion in the U.S.
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Now, some of us fell away from Christianity long before 30 and then came back.
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There is a phenomenon of people reverting to the church.
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And it is this really weird trend that's going on right now.
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And if you're on the political right, you may have noticed it.
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At the same time that the whole culture is becoming atheist, irreligious, spiritual but
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At the same time that that's happening, you are seeing a major uptick, especially among
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American political conservatives, in not just Christianity broadly, but in Catholicism.
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And not just Catholicism broadly, but in traditional Catholicism.
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You know, the smells and the bells and the Latin mass.
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Shia LaBeouf saying that he is now converting to Catholicism because of the Latin mass.
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And he said he's doing that because he felt like at the Latin mass they weren't trying to
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There's a lot of wisdom in that quote from Shia LaBeouf.
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The reason this is happening actually was predicted by Alexei de Tocqueville.
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So Alexei de Tocqueville, probably the greatest observer of American government.
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Democracy in America is his famous book written in the early 19th century.
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And Alexei de Tocqueville predicts in a very not frequently cited passage from that book
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that in America, Christianity is extremely important to the American character.
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But over time, Americans will either become Catholics or atheists.
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And it seems like a crazy prediction because you say America is a Protestant country.
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Catholicism is a kind of minority religion in America.
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Well, Tocqueville doesn't totally explain his reasoning here.
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But I think the reason is Americans are going to look for authority.
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They're going to look for what the Catholics call the magisterium.
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They're going to look for the eternal truths that have endured from 33 AD all the way up
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Or they're going to spin off in their kind of own irreligion because there is no authority
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Even if they have a denomination that they really like, you know, some version of Protestantism,
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they're not going to be able to ground that in the kind of historical continuity and authority
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that is required for a religious group to persist in the long run.
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So I think this is why, I'm not just saying this is a Catholic because, you know, I'm sort
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of cheering on that people are coming back to the Catholic Church.
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It's the very same trend that Tocqueville was observing and predicting, actually, in the 19th
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He says they're either going to become Catholic or atheist.
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Well, unfortunately, at the moment, it seems like the atheists are winning.
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It seems like they're going to, they're giving up.
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And actually, Tocqueville doesn't say they're going to become atheists.
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It's not even that people are exactly becoming atheists.
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They're doing all sorts of weird, new agey, occult, demonic, satanic kind of practices.
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They're like the Biden administration appointees.
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They're wearing, you know, pentagrams and leather harnesses and changing their sex or
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attempting to and dressing up in all sorts of weird, bizarre, occult ways.
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Well, I'm just pointing out, if you want that good, traditional American society where people
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are flourishing and having a good time and not everyone is being made miserable and not
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all the social science surveys are showing people getting less and less happy over time,
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you're going to have to establish your society on the basis of something other than what we
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Currently, since the middle of the 20th century, the basis of society, the sort of animating principle,
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the soul of America, as Joe Biden calls it, has been liberalism, public liberalism, such
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that you can believe whatever you want in the privacy of your own home.
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You have the freedom to worship, not the freedom to religion, the freedom to worship.
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But in public, you've got to just be totally secular and liberal.
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That's not the traditional American political order.
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The traditional American political order is really Christian nationalism, is the idea that
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That's a specific form of physical order for the country.
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And then at the metaphysical level, at the soul level, it's animated by Christianity.
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Not Zoroastrianism, not Shintoism, not Confucianism, not communism.
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That's how America was made great before until very, very recently, certainly until the middle
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So I think anybody who wants to restore any kind of good sort of America, anything resembling
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a normal flourishing country, whether you're Christian, whether you're Jewish, whether you're
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Muslim, whether you're whatever, the idea here is that America, as America was being
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made great, as people of all backgrounds and all religions and whatever were coming
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to America, the basis of America was public Christianity.
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If you want to make America great again, you've got to get back to that before it's too
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Speaking of authority, Donald Trump is punching back on all of the FBI, DOJ probes and raids
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into his declassified documents, they argue, which presented a threat to the security of
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And it was, they probably had the nuclear codes and Trump almost killed us all because of his
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So Trump is arguing that it is, not only did he not have the classified material, not only
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did he not mishandle classified material, Trump is arguing that he could declassify material
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There doesn't have to be a process, as I understand it.
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You know, there's different people say different things, but as I understand, there doesn't have
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If you're the president of the United States, you can declassify just by saying it's declassified.
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Even by thinking about it, because you're sending it to Mar-a-Lago or to wherever you're
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There can be a process, but there doesn't have to be.
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Now, I declassified things and we were having a lot of problems with NARA.
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You know, NARA is a radical left group of people running that thing.
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And when you send documents over there, I would say there's a very good chance that
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a lot of those documents will never be seen again.
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There's also a lot of speculation because of what they did, the severity of the FBI coming
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Were they looking for the Hillary Clinton emails that were deleted, but they are around someplace?
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So Trump is saying, he's making a good observation.
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He's saying they obviously didn't go after Hillary this way.
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And Hillary had, not only did she have more urgent documents that were contemporary documents,
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they were documents while she was secretary of state, not documents from the past when
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But furthermore, he's saying Hillary did not have this ultimate right to declassify stuff.
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And I didn't have to follow a procedure and I could declassify it with a magic wand.
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I could declassify it by saying these are declassified.
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I could declassify documents simply by thinking these documents are declassified.
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And so what people are going to hear is, ah, there's Trump's hyperbole again.
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He says, look, different people have different opinions.
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The reason it's still something of an open debate is because this has never been brought
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No one, no DOJ has ever had the audacity to go after a former president for mishandling
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Plenty of presidents have taken documents from the White House.
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Most, if not all of the modern presidents have done that.
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And in part, this might be because of the strange historical circumstance that Trump is not just
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He's the current top political rival to the incumbent president who has all but said that
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But the answer to that question, it's again, it's that the liberals taking this tiny little
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grain of almost tiny little bit of truth and then constructing a big lie around it.
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The answer to that question, obviously, is that Trump is right.
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Of course, the president can declassify whatever he wants, whenever and however he wants to
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Otherwise, you have a kind of inversion of the constitutional order.
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Otherwise, the president is then required to get the permission of some random bureaucrat at
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It's certainly not how our system is supposed to work.
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However, the president is not supposed to be responsible and accountable to some middling
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careerist employee at one of his own agencies in the executive branch.
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Of course, the president has to have ultimate declassification authority.
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We mentioned earlier this week that Letitia James, the Democrat AG in New York, who ran for
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office on a campaign of taking down Donald Trump.
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Letitia James is now bringing suit against Trump for some fraud in his businesses.
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And she's saying that Donald Trump exaggerated his wealth.
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Donald Trump may have at some point or another exaggerated a little bit, particularly about
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And even Bill Barr, Trump's former attorney general, who now they seem to have a pretty
00:27:29.340
Bill Barr has even raised the prospect that Trump may have broken some law with the classified
00:27:34.080
Even Bill Barr is coming out and saying, this probe in New York, this is a total political
00:27:38.260
What ultimately persuades me that this is a political hit job is she grossly overreaches
00:27:48.860
Yes, they had roles in the business, but this was his personal financial statement.
00:27:59.320
The children aren't going to know the details of that and be able, nor are they expected in
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the real world to do their own due diligence and have it reviewed independently.
00:28:08.640
And so this to me looks like gross overreach, which I think is going to end up backfiring
00:28:13.520
on them because I think it will make people sympathetic for Trump, that this is another
00:28:17.520
example of people piling on because of Trump derangement syndrome, this strong desire to
00:28:28.160
So Bill Barr, who everyone knows doesn't exactly love Donald Trump, he's saying this is so
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And of course, I've been saying this for many months now.
00:28:38.660
It is a prosecution in search of a crime in so many levels.
00:28:43.460
Going after Trump at the federal level because of the election claims, going after Trump at
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the state level because of the election claims, the New York attorney general looking into the
00:28:51.240
Trump organization and Trump's business dealings, the FBI raiding Mar-a-Lago over the classified
00:28:57.960
It's a political hit job to attack Donald Trump because the libs think that he is the top
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But there is actually some question about that now.
00:29:10.160
A new poll finds that since January, Republicans in Florida have significantly changed their
00:29:19.480
And Ron DeSantis, even Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida, was trailing Trump in Florida pretty
00:29:26.240
Now DeSantis is leading Trump in Florida for president in 2024 by the same margin that Trump
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had been leading DeSantis at the beginning of the year.
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This according to a USA Today Suffolk University poll.
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On top of that, DeSantis has raised $177.4 million.
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That's more than any other governor in history.
00:29:48.540
He's currying favor with lots of other Republican candidates to help them win around the country.
00:29:52.300
Again, I still think today, if the primary were held today, Trump would most likely blow
00:30:03.220
But the question has been recently, can there be movement?
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DeSantis, you know, he's running, he's in the national media all the time.
00:30:12.640
Is he, does he have the oomph to overtake Donald Trump?
00:30:17.760
And granted, it's, it's in DeSantis' state, but this is the very first time that you're
00:30:22.440
seeing this kind of movement where people might be scratching their heads and saying,
00:30:25.880
wow, even if Donald Trump runs, could someone like a Ron DeSantis make a credible play for
00:30:34.660
There are a lot of people who are signaling, hey, maybe I'll run.
00:30:41.000
Ron DeSantis has been a little more subtly suggesting that and going around and raising money.
00:30:49.780
Probably people are, are not going to run if Trump runs.
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But if you're getting numbers like this, and if DeSantis sees this kind of movement in a few
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other states, you might get an actual primary in 2024.
00:31:02.920
Now we've got a brand new show coming out tonight on Daily Wire Plus.
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00:31:12.440
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00:31:15.320
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00:31:23.600
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00:31:27.500
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00:31:42.880
Now, finally, we have arrived at my absolute favorite time of the week when I get to hear
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Without further ado, let's hear from the voice mailbag.
00:32:04.280
Recently, Marjorie Taylor Greene has gotten a lot of press here for her stance on abortion
00:32:14.780
We live in a bluer town now, and my husband and I have been discussing how best to campaign
00:32:20.380
We feel like having signs in our yard would put a target on our property.
00:32:27.000
And we have the means and will to protect ourselves if it came to it, but we obviously don't want
00:32:33.440
What can we and other conservatives do in a situation like this to stand up for our beliefs,
00:32:40.480
I want to raise my four-month-old to stand up for what he believes in, but I also don't
00:32:47.660
You've got to take stock of the actual danger that you are in.
00:32:51.780
So you've got to use your prudence here a little bit.
00:32:54.900
If you are in a basically nice community that is basically normal, but you're just afraid
00:33:01.980
because at the national level, the libs are getting very aggressive and violent, then
00:33:05.820
I think you can feel fine putting the sign up there.
00:33:09.580
If you're living in a community where people very likely are going to attack you for this,
00:33:16.060
then I don't think you're under any obligation to put the sign up.
00:33:18.600
You know, we're called to be wise as serpents and innocent as doves, not the other way around.
00:33:23.080
So I think there are certainly other ways to support candidates.
00:33:28.260
Well, it's not the easiest way for everybody, but it's the most direct way.
00:33:32.980
So if you're in a position to donate money, you can do that.
00:33:40.120
I've been on plenty of campaigns with plenty of volunteers, and that kind of work is invaluable
00:33:44.080
when you get someone really committed to the cause.
00:33:45.860
Making phone calls and knocking on doors, that can be a great thing that you can do.
00:33:50.120
Organizing through civic associations, that can be really, really important.
00:33:53.720
So even if you don't want to go out door to door and open yourself up, you know, if you're just,
00:33:57.380
or cold calling random people, if you just want to organize your friends, right, and maybe you can
00:34:04.980
have a little hodgepodge of these things, host a fundraiser, so you invite, you know, your wealthier
00:34:08.640
friends over, give a little bit of money to a campaign.
00:34:14.140
So you get involved at the school board level, right?
00:34:16.140
You get involved at the county level or the township level, and you're working on specific
00:34:24.320
That's a way then you're not necessarily supporting a candidate.
00:34:27.840
Very often at the local level, candidates are nonpartisan anyway.
00:34:32.600
The political involvement, this is something the left is really good at, it happens everywhere.
00:34:37.220
It's from the very smallest kind of school board race to the smallest little referendum
00:34:41.840
on a budget all the way up to president of the United States.
00:34:46.700
And you should err on the side, I think, of courage.
00:34:49.700
But this is why prudence is a virtue too, okay?
00:34:52.060
You are not under an obligation to put yourself into danger.
00:34:55.440
We know that things are a little different now than they were 20 years ago.
00:34:58.280
The libs are openly calling for violence against conservatives.
00:35:01.040
Not just crazy libs, well, they are all crazy, but not just random fringe libs.
00:35:05.340
We're talking about Democrat elected officials.
00:35:07.820
We're talking about the vice president of the United States bailing out rioters who attack
00:35:14.240
We're talking about staff members for Joe Biden doing the same thing.
00:35:16.640
We're talking about Hillary saying, don't be civil with Republicans.
00:35:18.760
We're talking about Maxine Waters saying, go attack Republicans, go find them where they
00:35:23.320
So that's a situation that means you are not required to put your family in danger.
00:35:31.300
This is Brian from Ireland, listening to you in the Czech Republic.
00:35:38.040
I was pleased to hear you mention the European energy crisis yesterday.
00:35:42.940
This is getting pretty bad, I have to say, over here.
00:35:46.640
And various governments are now introducing price caps, which we know is not really going
00:35:52.320
to do anything because it's like stepping on the end of a hose.
00:35:54.680
The water is just going to get out somewhere else.
00:35:58.940
And industry is really worried about these prices at the moment, that they're just so
00:36:04.580
high that the likes of steel manufacturers and all kinds of heavy industry are just basically
00:36:16.120
So my question really is, from your slightly more detached position in America, how do you
00:36:28.440
I'm sorry to tell you, I see this going terribly for Europe over the winter.
00:36:32.880
And this is because, obviously, Putin has invaded Ukraine.
00:36:39.000
But this is also caused by really stupid Western policies with regard to Russia and Ukraine
00:36:47.380
The thing that no one wants to say, that we're not really supposed to say, but is nevertheless
00:36:50.980
true and very serious American statesmen and foreign policy watchers from George Kennan
00:36:56.360
to Henry Kissinger to all sorts of people saw this coming, to Michael Knowles, saw this
00:37:02.400
The West has been provoking Russia steadily since the end of the Cold War.
00:37:07.100
The West has been expanding NATO, in some cases in a way that's totally normal and understandable,
00:37:12.340
in some cases in a way that is provocative and reckless and totally unnecessary since the
00:37:18.220
And the Western involvement in and after the 2014 coup in Ukraine is problematic.
00:37:26.280
And in Putin's words, in his speech that launched the war, Putin said that this is an unacceptable
00:37:32.660
security threat that you've got NATO on the border of Russia.
00:37:35.580
Now, NATO comes in and says, no, no, no, we're just a defensive alliance.
00:37:38.260
You have nothing to worry about from us, Russia.
00:37:45.420
Oh, yeah, please tell me that NATO is a defensive alliance to all the countries that NATO has
00:37:51.000
Again, I'm not saying that NATO was necessarily wrong to invade those countries.
00:37:54.960
In the cases that I cited, you know, especially Libya, I don't think that was a good idea.
00:37:58.920
But I'm just observing a fact, NATO has been proactive as well, not just defensive.
00:38:06.700
And so when Putin says it's an unacceptable security risk to have NATO on the border of
00:38:11.600
Russia, specifically in Ukraine, which is such an important territory from the national
00:38:16.020
standpoint of Russia, then you've got a provocation that at least makes you understand why Putin
00:38:25.520
Furthermore, the Europeans and the Americans, but especially the Europeans, allowed themselves
00:38:30.020
to get totally played by Russia in particular when they dismantled their energy industry.
00:38:36.700
When Russia, very likely funding environmentalist groups, went in and said, hey, Europe, you've
00:38:44.040
Hey, Europe, you've got to get rid of your oil production.
00:38:46.720
Hey, hey, West, more broadly, in the name of stopping the sun monster, you've got to get
00:38:51.840
rid of the way that you can sustain your entire civilization.
00:38:56.140
You're going to get rid of your most important energy sectors.
00:39:01.640
In Europe, what that means is that Europe is just now reliant on Russian gas and oil.
00:39:08.520
In fact, the immediate cause of the war in Ukraine was the very fact that Joe Biden took
00:39:14.180
sanctions off of Russia's Nord Stream 2 pipeline.
00:39:17.120
And then when Russia was able to, or believed it was going to be able to send oil and gas
00:39:26.720
This is what the president of Ukraine, Vladimir Zelensky, said.
00:39:29.880
He said, you guys are causing this by lifting these sanctions.
00:39:32.700
And then what happened exactly what we all predicted.
00:39:35.440
So that's the 30,000 foot view of all the stupid decisions that the West has made to
00:39:44.920
The first thing that I would do right now if I were in making the decisions in Brussels
00:39:49.480
for Europe or in the United States is I would ramp up, and I would have done this six months
00:39:54.560
or a year ago, but I would ramp up as quickly as possible domestic energy production.
00:39:59.920
Oil, gas, dirty, rotten, filthy coal, just anything you can to get energy.
00:40:06.720
And I don't think that we should be sacrificing our poor people and our elderly people and
00:40:10.880
our vulnerable people to Mother Gaia, you know, in the name of stopping global warming.
00:40:17.600
And I think we need to fuel our civilization, especially now if we're getting into an ever
00:40:21.440
escalating war with a nuclear form or superpower, okay?
00:40:28.800
And if not, I hold the European leaders responsible.
00:40:33.880
I would like to get your take on a personal issue.
00:40:37.040
I am seeking your perspective about a couple with differences of opinion with some pretty
00:40:47.600
My fiance sort of is on some things, but he's indifferent about others.
00:40:52.960
I have conservative values and I use those values when raising my children.
00:40:57.640
An example would be he sees no harm in smoking weed from time to time.
00:41:01.560
Despite not having done it in 11 years, he has suddenly taken interest in it again.
00:41:06.460
We are in our 30s with two children, only one of whom is biologically mine.
00:41:11.100
I understand young people who might try different substances.
00:41:14.940
I was not one of them, never have been, but I have several friends who have in their younger
00:41:20.640
But as a father and a soon-to-be husband, am I asking too much to expect that he should
00:41:29.920
I want to set a strong, moral, and not to mention healthy standard for my children because
00:41:38.560
Of course, you are well within your rights to say, hey, I don't want drugs in my house.
00:41:45.420
Even a drug that we're told is not that big a deal like marijuana.
00:41:48.780
You are absolutely well within your rights to tell your husband that and you should tell
00:41:52.580
him to stop trying to relive his college days and get with the program and grow up.
00:41:58.300
Now, some people are going to push back, as always happens when I come after the old Haitian
00:42:02.440
oregano, the old devil's lettuce, and they'll say, Michael, pot's not that big a deal.
00:42:10.780
First of all, the claims that marijuana is not addictive seem to be falling apart because
00:42:16.300
people do get addicted to it, if not physically, certainly psychologically.
00:42:21.760
The way that people consume marijuana these days leads to neurosis, leads to anxiety, can
00:42:32.000
You don't want your kids involved in that because at the very least, one disease that
00:42:38.100
marijuana is definitely linked to is laying on the couch eating potato chipsitis.
00:42:44.900
One problem that the old devil's lettuce is definitely linked to is people just becoming
00:42:50.120
big stoner losers who don't do anything and don't want to get a job and don't feel particularly
00:42:58.400
Some people can smoke a doobie, spark up a jazz cigarette, and function perfectly fine
00:43:06.420
It's a legitimate fear, especially if you've got kids in the house.
00:43:08.480
So yeah, I think you ought to bring that up with your husband.
00:43:14.820
Obviously, there's a little bit of a values misalignment here, as we call it.
00:43:18.560
And so I don't envy the position that you're in.
00:43:21.580
But I would present it as not just a sort of nagging or scolding or moralizing, but say,
00:43:28.620
I don't think that you're going to be improved by smoking the Peruvian parsley.
00:43:33.580
I think the only thing that could happen is you become more of a loser.
00:43:37.160
And I don't think our kids' lives are going to be improved by having pot in the house.
00:43:41.680
And so regardless of what you think about the science of marijuana or whatever BS stoner
00:43:47.340
nonsense you're hearing, just from a personal level, honey, would you mind making a little
00:44:06.060
Would you mind just giving it up for me, please, honey?
00:44:11.680
And then, I don't know, get your husband to smoke normal things like tobacco.
00:44:18.080
Mr. Knowles, as a Service Academy graduate and a military officer, the education skill
00:44:23.880
set of myself and my peers, combined with our patriotism and desire to serve, means that
00:44:29.600
most of us strongly consider federal service after the military.
00:44:33.500
How can we uphold our conservative values while working for agencies like the FBI, ATF, or
00:44:39.320
Should we even apply to work at these institutions or take our education and skills somewhere
00:44:48.800
My wife and I have been considering Catholicism and attending mass largely due to your influence.
00:44:55.000
Yes, I am of the opinion that if you are so inclined and you want to work for the FBI,
00:44:59.420
but you fear working for the FBI or you have some hesitation because the FBI has been largely
00:45:05.240
corrupted by the libs, I would suggest you go do it anyway.
00:45:09.080
The libs are really good at infiltrating the institutions and taking political power and
00:45:14.700
We kind of throw our hands in the air and say, oh, well, it's all ruined.
00:45:18.860
If there is a chance that you think you could do some good there and right the ship, I'm
00:45:29.160
I do not think we should let the perfect get in the way of the good.
00:45:34.080
If you're going to graduate, work at the FBI, don't compromise your morals.
00:45:41.300
Don't follow the sticks and carrots that they're going to lay out for you to just become one
00:45:46.380
But if you can go in there and hold firm and stick to what you believe in and make the country
00:45:51.520
That's why I think conservatives should become teachers.
00:45:53.500
That's why I think conservatives should get out there into all of these fields and then
00:45:59.620
Do that kind of unglamorous work of wielding the power to push the libs to the sidelines
00:46:13.440
That means that Mr. Ben Davies, my producer, has given me five headlines from the week.
00:46:20.520
We have to figure out which one the fake one is.
00:46:22.180
Also, because it's mailbag day, I will be taking more of your mailbag questions, like the
00:46:25.500
mailbag questions that are actually written in, in the old-fashioned mailbag.
00:46:31.360
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